scorie

scorie (plural scories)

1. Alternative form of scaurie.

• Cerios, Croesi, Crœsi, Recios, cories, cosier, croise, croisé

Borrowed from Latin scoria.

• IPA^(key): /skɔ.ʁi/

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scorie f (plural scories)

1. scoria; dregs
   • 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 2, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:

     J’avais l’impression, fugitive, de m’élever. D’approcher d’une sorte de magie du verbe, délesté de toute scorie, de tout gras.

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• “scorie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

scorie f

1. plural of scoria

• cerosi, corsie, escirò, escori, reciso, riesco, riseco, risecò, scierò, serico, sorice

Borrowed from French scorie, Latin scoria, from Ancient Greek σκωρία (skōría). Compare the inherited doublet scoare (now a regionalism), as well as the more common zgură, from Greek.

scorie f (plural scorii)

1. slag, dross

   Synonyms: zgură, (rare, regional) scoare

2. scoria

   Synonyms: zgură, (rare, regional) scoare

3. layer of black oxide formed on the surface of steel that has been exposed to high temperatures